Ombudsman: We have accepted Constitutional decision to suspend the salary law

As for the judicial system, Jashar said there is continuing to be procrastination of subjects that pose human rights violations.

He has cited several cases of importance handled by the ombudsman Institute.

Kosovo continues to face these problems, still starting with the problem of legislation in the country, considered one of the main concerns during our work and addressing the issues we have had in the process. Because a large part of the laws derived from the Kosovo Assembly are still not harmonised among themselves, and the second still does not have a different rule of law that constitutes one of the most serious problems in the functioning of the law, which affects the entire justice system, unable to implement the amendments of the” laws, Jashar said.

The ombudsman added that there are no improvements in the accountability and responsibility of executive authorities as far as executives are concerned.

However, complaints and cases of access to public documents through December 13th are 102 or 70 percent raises compared with 2018. As for the lack of transparency, the first, according to Jashar, is the Ministry of Infrastructure for Infrastructural Lack.

“As far as judicial system is concerned, there are problems continuing in procrastinating judicial procedures that constitute human rights violations. Even recently, as long as the judicial system itself acknowledged that they have the burden of examining the subjects and the period needed to address these issues is now calculated to last more than five years if the cases do not return to review, while there are no improvements in the accountability and responsibility of executive authorities”, he said.

Ombudsman Jashar also cited two laws -- the one for public officials and the wages -- that have been suspended by the Constitutional Court with the initiative of the ombudsman Institute. He said the constitutional decision to suspend the salary law has been accepted.

The verdict is accepted, is a document that has arrived in the Ombudsman's office... I think the publication of the Constitutional Court's decision on the official page confirms that the court has made such a decision that institutions have been forwarded to, while what are the other steps this court will take, of course, is outside the mandate of the ombudsman”, Jashar claimed.

He has mentioned the most important cases that were addressed during 2019. According to Jashar, a case of importance for equal treatment of pensioners on the part of commercial banks in Kosovo in providing credit services, (206 thousand and 534 pensioners).

The next case has also been with the positive obligations of the state in terms of protection from domestic violence for right in life, stemming from the Constitution and Article 2 of the European Convention on Protection of Human Rights and Freedoms.

Yasar has added to the discussion of children in a street situation.

The number of complaints filed at the Ombudsman Institute for 2019 were 1876, while the number of cases open to the investigation by the submitted complaints has been 878, while open cases Ex Offizio 51.

The Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning, the Ministry of Labour and Social Management, the Ministry of Health and the municipality of Dragas tops the list of the most responsible institutions for accessing official documents, while non-cooperative institutions are the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport, the Home Affairs Ministry, August and the Ministry of Finance and from local institutions is the Pristina municipality.